GSOC idea: USB Multiseat Refinement
Hi Lucas, Great to hear of your interest and experience - sounds good for this. 2010/3/26 Lucas Ferreira wrote > Ther is one specific distribution to work on? Could be any. The idea is to get all the upstream pieces for fully plug-and-play USB multiseat in shape to include in any/many distros. In many ways it's close, but given how various key pieces are just coming together, working with current/latest kernel, xorg release, and gdm release is important. If you want to make the distro(s) part of the proposal to Google -- Gentoo can always work. Fedora 13 and Debian Squeeze looks like they have the right pieces. Ubuntu would need to be 10.10 or later -- 10.04 is missing some things AFAIK. > If not, What version of Xorg and Linux kernel will be used to it? For the kernel, use the udlfb module (DisplayLink USB framebuffer driver) in staging tree of 2.6.34+, possibly with updates from git.plugable.com. I'd be happy to help get any necessary patches back into the kernel process. For Xorg, version 1.8 should be good as a start (has the key udev and input support), running with the udlfb compatible driver (not in X distro yet; right now hosted at git.plugable.com). I'm sure you've already seen this, but here's a recent Google post on student applications http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/students-apply-now-for-google-summer-of.html I'd be happy to help provide feedback on any applications making use of udlfb, if anyone wants it before submitting to Google. Another separate but related proposal which Google might go for is taking the knowledge of how to program DisplayLink USB chips that's already in the kernel fbdev driver (udlfb) -- and convert that to kms/dri, along with the matching X server. It would get USB graphics more in sync with the changes happening in traditional PCIe graphics. Plugable can donate USB graphics or USB terminal hardware for any projects that get accepted by Google. Best wishes, Bernie Thompson Plugable Technologies http://plugable.com/ ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: GSOC idea: USB Multiseat Refinement
Hi, I have multiseat working on Debian Sid with 2 seats with straight X, but 7.4 and gdm. Am about to register a bug with bugs.freedesktop.org that this setup does not work with 7.5: the system freezes after a few minutes. Sorry for top posting: Yahoo! doesn't let me bottom post. What's GSOC? Yeah for multiseat! I have been using it for 6 years, but not mdm because I want VT's on the first seat. BTW, under 7.5 I can run MDM and Aivils Stoss' multiseat_gentlemans_kit-1.0.0 without a problem. But it then freezes when I stop multiseat. Regards, Hugo Vanwoerkom Yahoo! Mail has very limited reply options. You can top-post or bottom-post and that's it! Hugo --- On Fri, 3/26/10, Lucas Ferreira wrote: From: Lucas Ferreira Subject: GSOC idea: USB Multiseat Refinement To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 5:21 AM Hello, I'm really interested to participate in GSOC program this year. I have worked with multiseats over the last 3 years in MDM project (http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm) and I would like to work in the "USB Multiseat Refinement" idea because I think is very important that linux distributions have a easy way to configure a multiseat enviroment. It is because here in Brazil multiseats are becomming very commom on public schools and I have saw that they are having many problens with it. I have read what the Plugable have done about USB multiseats and I already had studied the problems that they are having, so I think I can help and try to resolve it. Best regards, -- Lucas Nascimento Ferreira C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: GSOC idea: USB Multiseat Refinement
Hi Lucas, I did rewrite MDM: http://sourceforge.net/projects/multiseat-gk/ Of course i did common mistake under Linux. I made programmer friendly package instead end-user friendly. As result end-user cannot start it. Aivils Citēju Lucas Ferreira : > Hello, > > I'm really interested to participate in GSOC program this year. I have > worked with multiseats > over the last 3 years in MDM project ( > http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm) and I would like to work > in > the "USB Multiseat Refinement" idea because I think is very important that > linux distributions have a easy way > to configure a multiseat enviroment. It is because here in Brazil multiseats > are becomming very commom on public > schools and I have saw that they are having many problens with it. I have > read what the Plugable have done about > USB multiseats and I already had studied the problems that they are having, > so I think I can help and try to resolve it. > > Best regards, > > -- > Lucas Nascimento Ferreira > C3SL - Centro de Computaēćo Cientķfica e Software Livre > UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paranį > ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: GSOC idea: USB Multiseat Refinement
Hello again, I have some questions about the USB Multiseat Refinement idea. Configure USB multiseats may be very dependent of distributions and I have seen that Bernie Thompson has worked on Ubuntu 9.04 and Xubuntu 8.10. In this project, Ther is one specific distribution to work on? If not, What version of Xorg and Linux kernel will be used to it? Thanks for any reply, 2010/3/26 Lucas Ferreira > Hello, > > I'm really interested to participate in GSOC program this year. I have > worked with multiseats > over the last 3 years in MDM project ( > http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm) and I would like to work > in > the "USB Multiseat Refinement" idea because I think is very important that > linux distributions have a easy way > to configure a multiseat enviroment. It is because here in Brazil > multiseats are becomming very commom on public > schools and I have saw that they are having many problens with it. I have > read what the Plugable have done about > USB multiseats and I already had studied the problems that they are having, > so I think I can help and try to resolve it. > > Best regards, > > -- > Lucas Nascimento Ferreira > C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre > UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná > -- Lucas Nascimento Ferreira C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
GSOC idea: USB Multiseat Refinement
Hello, I'm really interested to participate in GSOC program this year. I have worked with multiseats over the last 3 years in MDM project ( http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm) and I would like to work in the "USB Multiseat Refinement" idea because I think is very important that linux distributions have a easy way to configure a multiseat enviroment. It is because here in Brazil multiseats are becomming very commom on public schools and I have saw that they are having many problens with it. I have read what the Plugable have done about USB multiseats and I already had studied the problems that they are having, so I think I can help and try to resolve it. Best regards, -- Lucas Nascimento Ferreira C3SL - Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
